Free registration enables you to search for other people researching the same ancestors and to view family trees.
http://www.geneanet.org
Surname distribution map for Italy. Text is in Italian.
http://gens.labo.net/it/cognomi
Maps of Buckinghamshire villages, photographs and information on parish registers.
http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/index.htm
There is a lot of digitised material available on this site including the 1871-1911 censuses, immigration, naturalisation, land, military records and more.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
Comprehensive information on East Perth Cemeteries where many Western Australian pioneers are buried. Names are listed in the Burial Register.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/graves/home.htm
This website has lots of information on Thames watermen and lightermen including lists of names transcribed from various sources.
http://www.parishregister.com/aboutstp.html#articles
Searchable database of births 1864-1877, marriages 1864-1930 and deaths 1864-1877 and 1908-1955 in Nova Scotia, Canada.
https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com
A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the the royal families of Europe. Index and search facility.
http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm
Census transcriptions for England, Scotland and Wales 1841-1891. Not yet complete so check the coverage for the county of interest. Coverage is particularly good for Cornwall and parts of Scotland.
http://www.freecen.org.uk
Relatively new website so there aren't many transcriptions yet but the site will include transcriptions of births, marriages, deaths, census records, wills and memorial inscriptions.
http://essex-opc.org.uk/index.php
Search by the name of a person or by the name of a public house and county to find details of who was living in pubs throughout England at the time of the 1881 census.
http://www.1881pubs.com
Search three 19th century gazetteers - Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1872), Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1885) and Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887).
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/index.jsp
Online bookshop for Tasmanian family history.
http://www.tasfamily.net.au
Database of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 Jan 1923 and 30 Apr 1923 and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration
This site has information on merchant ships registered in Britain 1861-1913. You can find details such as port of registry, year constructed, tonnage, type of vessel and the ship's official number. There are also links to other sites, an index to vessels in books and more.
http://www.crewlist.org.uk/index.html
Ulster Ancestry is an Independent Family Research Organisation & genealogy centre. Free access to index to Primary Valuation for Ulster.
http://www.ulsterancestry.com/search.html
Very detailed website with online records for the parish of Wirksworth in Derbyshire including births, marriages and deaths, wills, census records, directories and more.
http://www.wirksworth.org.uk
Searchable database of migrants who arrived in Western Australia at ports of Fremantle or Albany.
http://welcomewalls.museum.wa.gov.au
Memorial inscriptions mainly from regional New South Wales with images of headstones and information on the cemetery itself.
http://cemindex.arkangles.com
Digitised early Australian newspapers including the Swan River News and Western Australian Chronicle.
http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg
Search British First World War medal index cards, British Prisoner of War records, wills from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1384-1858, Royal Navy service records 1873-1923 and more.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline
The Gazetteer of British Place Names lists over 50,000 place-names along with their national grid reference. It lists the historic county and also the names of the most important administrative areas within which each place lies.
http://www.gazetteer.co.uk
From this site you can link through to lists of convicts in Tasmania with contact details for people researching them. There are also lists of convict ships, crew and convict guards, convict record abbreviations and more.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/convicts/con_main.htm
Wonderful collection of records, photographs, directories, histories, indexes and some donated material.
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/genealog.htm
Gazetteer of the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
http://www.bartleby.com
Australian-based general family history site with good Western Australian content. Try text search - name, location, etc. Compiled by contributors.
http://www.genealogics.org/index.php
Transcriptions of baptisms, marriages, burials, census returns, memorial inscriptions and more.
http://wsom-opc.org.uk/index.php
International site listing census records found online.
http://www.census-online.com
Website for the town of Leighton-Linslade, formerly Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire and Linslade in Buckinghamshire, and surrounding villages. Includes transcriptions of census records, trade directories and more.
http://www.leighton-linslade.com/index.html
Main genealogical gateway for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
http://www.genuki.org.uk
Packed with information on the counties of Kent, Surrey and Sussex including census transcriptions, maps, photographs and more.
http://theweald.org/home.asp
Directory of free websites for Victorian family history.
http://www.freesurnamesearch.com/search/ausnzp/victoria.html
Family history gateway for Ireland with a separate page for each county. Many county pages include transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths, directories etc. There is also a surname list with names of researchers.
http://www.irelandgenweb.com
Huge searchable database of publicly submitted family trees which contains over 480 million names.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
The National Library of Wales has quite a lot of online family history content. Select Family History - Search Archival Databases for online indexes to marriage licences 1616-1837, court records 1730-1830, pre-1858 wills and more. Select Digital Mirror for digitised content including maps.
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php
Searchable database of passenger lists for people leaving British ports 1890-1960. View free results list and pay per view for transcripts or images of passenger list. Part of the Findmypast UK subscription site which is available to use free within the building at the State Library of Western Australia.
http://www.ancestorsonboard.com
Transcriptions of thousands of births, marriages and deaths in Yorkshire taken from the local register office indexes. Part of the UKBMD Project.
http://www.yorkshirebmd.info
Hampshire Record Office holds a wide variety of historical archives for the county of Hampshire. The online catalogue is almost complete and includes 10,000 digitised images. There is also a list of parish register holdings for the county.
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives
Includes online catalogue, various indexes including Somerset wills 1812-1857, research guides, digitised postcards and photographs and more.
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives
Transcriptions of parish registers and historical directories for some counties of England and Wales. Searchable database of death and burial information transcribed from gravestones at several South Australian cemeteries.
http://parishmouse.com
Searchable database of 1000s of English and Welsh historical property deeds.
http://www.familychest.co.uk/default.htm
Searchable database of 3,000 British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and other European volunteers in the South American wars of independence 1810-1890.
http://www.bris.ac.uk/hispanic/latin/research.html
Information on researching your family history from the National Archives of Australia.
http://www.naa.gov.au/services/family-historians/index.aspx
Large database with descriptions and images of ships, passenger lists, diaries kept on board ships and more.
http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html
Index of gravestones from some counties in England plus a few in other parts of the world.
http://www.gravestonephotos.com
Online information includes Comprehensive Gazetteer for England and Wales 1894-5 and parish registers for some counties particularly Cornwall and Derbyshire.
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk
Searchable database of immigrants to the United States commemorated on a wall of honour. They can have arrived in the US through any port.
http://www.wallofhonor.com
Surname distribution maps for England and Wales (1891) and the United States (1920).
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx
A huge range of free transcribed historical directories for Belfast.
http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk
This database on the Archives Office of Tasmania's website contains the names of 500,000 people found in Tasmania in the 19th century from birth, marriage and death records and other sources.
http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search
Through this site you can make contact with volunteers around the world willing to do lookups in their local area. You will need to read the FAQs before making contact.
http://www.raogk.org
Learn about the lives of patients in Victorian and Edwardian times. This site has a collection of resources relating to the early years of hospitals for sick children; the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, the Evelina Hospital, the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease and Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Formerly the Small and Special website which covered the Great Ormond Street hospital only.
http://hharp.org
19th Century German passengers to South Australia.
http://passengerlist.tripod.com/germanytoaustralia/index.html
Search India Office records including births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials for mainly British and European people in India c1600-1949.
http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/About.aspx
Database containing the details of 720,000 Icelandic people. Those appearing in the database have free access which includes more than 95% of all Icelanders born after 1703 as well as 50% of those who lived 874-1703.Sources include church records.
http://www.islendingabok.is/IServlets/index.jsp
Transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths in Staffordshire from 1837 onwards taken from the local register office indexes. Part of the UKBMD Project.
http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk
Website for the family history magazine "Ancestors" published by the National Archives in the UK. You can search back issues of the magazine here.
http://www.ancestorsmagazine.co.uk/index.php
Contains the names of about three million Jews who died in the Holocaust. Information was submitted by surviving family members and can include quite a lot of detail. There is also a smaller survivors' database.
http://www.yadvashem.org
Chronological list of passenger ships arriving in Western Australia 1829-1889 including some passenger lists. Part of the Perth Dead Persons' Society website.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/shipping/mig-wa.htm
Transcriptions of baptisms, marriages and burials, census records, memorial inscriptions and more.
http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/opc/opc.html
Collect Britain is part of the British Library's website and includes some medieval maps, a database of English accents and digitised copies of the Penny Illustrated newspaper.
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk
Dictionary of old occupations.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/trades.html
Discusses how much old monetary values would be worth today.
http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
Official website for Scotland with births, marriages and deaths, census records plus parish registers and wills. Recent additions include Roman Catholic records and RC British Army records from the Bishopric of the Forces. Free searching and then pay-per-view for images of documents.
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Index to Devon wills up to 1857.
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonWillsProject
Convict ships, convict tales, pensioner guards and more
http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/index.html
Searchable database of nearly 10,000 convicts transported to the Swan River colony 1850-1868.
http://www.fremantleprison.com.au/Pages/Convict.aspx
Western Australian Post Office Directories 1893-1949.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides/wa_history/post_office_directories
Search the catalogue, explore the subject guides, find out what's on and more.
http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au
The 1901 and 1911 censuses for Ireland, including images, are freely available on the National Archives of Ireland website.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
Over 200 years of proceedings from London's famous court. Use it to find criminals, judges, witnesses etc.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
A combined catalogue of holdings in archives throughout England and Wales.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a
Information about life in Britain taken from census data. Various themes are explored such as Population, Life and Death, Industry, Work and Poverty etc. There are also descriptions of places from travel writers and gazetteers as well as a collection of historical maps.
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp
View maps of places in England, Scotland and Wales mostly from the 19th and early 20th century.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk
Searchable database of over 48,000 names of convicts sent to New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia between 1788 and 1868. This database is part of the free content on the subscription database Ancestry.com. You will need to register to access it. Alternatively, you can access everything on the subscription database free of charge within the State Library building.
http://www.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=5517
Selected family history websites arranged by category on the National Library of Australia site.
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/genelist.html
Search for members of the Australian armed forces in a variety of databases including the Roll of Honour. Also included is a military glossary, information on Australian military units, war diaries and official war histories. Look under People - Family History for a really useful range of Information Sheets.
http://www.awm.gov.au
Database of about one million Australians who served in the defence forces and the merchant navy during World War Two.
http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
View photographs, maps, objects and artworks held at various archives, libraries and museums around Australia including State Libraries, the Australian War Memorial, the National Trust etc. Search under keyword for people, places, ships and more. Also included in the database are Flickr images submitted by the public.
http://www.pictureaustralia.org
Search for cemeteries throughout Australia and then see their location on Google Maps.
http://www.auscem.com/auscemlist.php
Searchable database of digitised New Zealand material including the six volume Cyclopedia of New Zealand which was published between 1897 and 1908. This contains a lot of biographical entries as well as providing a snapshot of life in New Zealand at the turn of the century.
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-cyclopedia.html
Addresses and links to online indexes where applicable for all local register offices in England and Wales.
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/REG/regoff.html#B
Digitised artwork of First Fleet pioneers held at the Natural History Museum in London.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/first-fleet/index.dsml
Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940.
http://www.dia.ie
Digitised index cards from Captain Lionel Challis' Peninsula Roll Call with biographical details on over 9,600 British officers who served in the Peninsular War 1808-1814. Information has been compiled from Army lists, gazettes, dispatches, regimental records and other offical records.
http://www.napoleon-series.org
Database of headstone photographs submitted by volunteers. You can search by name within each province. There are not many images at present but this is an ongoing project. There are also links to similar projects in Ireland and the United States.
http://canadianheadstones.com
This site has information about medals available to defence force personnel with photographs of each type of medal.
http://www.defence.gov.au/medals
Headstone transcriptions for cemeteries around Australia.
http://www.ozburials.com/index.htm
An archive of memories of World War Two submitted by the public.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
This site has lots of useful information on how to trace your Jewish roots. Part of the British "Moving Here" website.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/jewish/jewish.htm
This site has lots of useful information on how to trace your Irish roots. Part of the British "Moving Here" website.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/irish/irish.htm
This site has lots of useful information on how to trace your Caribbean roots. Part of the British "Moving Here" website.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/caribbean/caribbean.htm
This site has lots of useful information on how to trace your South Asian roots. Part of the British "Moving Here" website.
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/asian.htm
Database of Irish placenames which gives details of the townland, civil parish, barony and county for each place. You can listen to the pronunciation of some placenames.
http://www.logainm.ie/?uiLang=en
Online archive of Victorian government gazettes covering the period 1836 to 1997 from the State Library of Victoria. Includes the New South Wales Gazette, the Port Phillip Gazette and the Victoria Government Gazette.
http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au
An online index of Irish merchant seamen during the period 1918-1921. The database has over 23,000 records which were extracted from index cards in Southampton Civic Archives. There are photographs of many of the men which can be ordered from the archives in Southampton.
http://www.irishmariners.ie
This website contains two databases; one is an index of over 23,000 Welsh merchant seamen covering the period 1800 to 1945 and the other is a database of over 3,000 Welshmen in the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1815.
http://www.welshmariners.org.uk
Information on the first fleet with further links and references.
http://www.ulladulla.info/historian/ffstory.html
This is a very detailed website packed with information on the First World War. It includes information on how to go about researching a soldier as well as unit histories, war diaries and much more.
http://www.1914-1918.net
